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Also went to AKS and got the clutch swapped out - FINALLY - it lasted about 2 days after mapping. Nearly 60k on the previous 6 Paddle and DMF kit so lasted very well indeed.
Replaced with new 6 Paddle unit and SMF. SMF comes with higher clamp force cover plate.

The clutch plate itself had hardly worn. But the flywheel and cover plate had seen better days.
It does rattle quite a bit on idle without the clutch depressed but it revs quicker and just feels nicer in general.

Also fitted a clutch bypass switch. You always had to have the clutch depressed to start the car before but now it doesn't need that.
This was done as when fitting SMF kits it can damage the thrust bearing which can kill the engine so better to be safe than sorry.

While it was in the air we did the oil and filter. It was replaced when Bobby rebuilt the engine and now swapped it again just to be safe. Now running Millers CFS NT+ 5w40.

Done around 2000 miles on the new head turbo etc and nothing has broken or blown up

Got all the suspension on on Tuesday. New Bilstein PSS10/B16. It took a bit longer than anticipated so I ended up getting a lift home on Tuesday evening and collected the car on Thursday.

Also got full Superpro rear bush kit, new drop links front and rear, new rear top mounts, and some modifications to my turbo intake pipe and boost pipework.

It's amazing!! So much better. You can certainly tell the suspension is a quality item rather than a budget lowering option. It's actually ever so slightly higher than it was before now too but hey ho.

Tested it out at Donnington Park on Sunday at VAG Tuner VW show.
As a package it was very, very capable. Next chassis mod is a LSD but given the power and torque it does manage really well without one.
Unfortunately I got black flagged twice as I was tripping the noise meters ... 98db driveby, I was around 101 db.

My 1st gear synchro has broken so the work around was either to wait 5 or so seconds from pressing the clutch down before engaging 1st, or put it into 2nd and then straight into 1st.

This worked for a while but now 2nd gear has done the same. Which makes the car incredibly difficult to drive around town.

A few weeks ago I bought a gearbox from Ebay to be rebuilt with a limited slip diff (Peloquin) and all the internal strengthening mods. Alex from AKS is a very busy guy and finally got around to stripping it down.

My gearbox issues have finally been fixed. The new gearbox with LSD and other modifications has been installed and works perfectly. Very happy, completely changes the driving characteristics, and it's nice to have 1st and 2nd gear back.

Not a full update (I will update soon) - but we achieved this today.
395hp
Around 660nm
No nos (straight diesel)
20c+ ambient temps.2018-04-18_07-33-09 by Fat Bear Photography, on Flickr
edit: Further update
Had a bit of a nightmare over the last few months.
So we had a new turbo built. It has some very fancy wheels.
however being brand new, when it was first fitted it had a very loud high pitched whining which was not normal upon initial installation.
we had it rebuilt (again, for a new turbo!) and the balancing was so far out the balancing machine that it cut off. seems like in soviet russia, turbo balances you.
it was balanced and came back, the noise was gone but it was chugging out a lot of smoke (this is oil / white smoke , not black from fuel). this is with a 1mm oil restrictor as wellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRo4C_pAyIw
So we had to have it rebuilt AGAIN. 3rd time lucky. And a lot of wasted hours for Bobby taking him away from other projects and family time.
this time by an old friend of Bobbys was brought in, who have to say did a really good job and it is much better now.
Now it was sorted we also plumbed in water cooling, and wired up a sensor to measure turbo shaft speed and got that working with factory inputs.IMG-20180411-WA0000 by Fat Bear Photography, on FlickrIMG-20180411-WA0001 by Fat Bear Photography, on Flickr
After a lot of tuning work from Bobby we went to Surrey Rolling Road, unfortunately it so happened to be the hottest day of the year yesterday 18th April with ambient temps between 20 and 25c
Nevertheless the end results were 395hp and 660nm torque. Very happy.

Curious about this below, this is the first I've read of such a practice. My jetta's switch has been dead for about 150k miles and I actually really like just getting in a starting the car. Wouldn't mind figuring it out on the Golf
Both cars have SMF.

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Originally Posted by xjay1337

Also fitted a clutch bypass switch. You always had to have the clutch depressed to start the car before but now it doesn't need that.
This was done as when fitting SMF kits it can damage the thrust bearing which can kill the engine so better to be safe than sorry.